I first asked friends to attend a family therapy meeting in a consultation session with my wife, Karen Cooper-Haber, Ph.D. She asked me to consult on a case that involved excessive fighting by a middle school child. The family therapy was helping with family problems but did not substantially modify the child's behavioral problems at school. I asked Karen to request someone from the grandparent generation to attend the consultation session. In my head, I heard Carl Whitaker's words that adding somebody new from the therapist's side, clients' side, or better yet from both sides can bring forth new perspectives and help break a therapeutic impasse.